Mobilisation reached Častá on 1 August 1914, when a clerk drove out from Senec with the printed notices; the village chronicle remembers the weeping as the men left. What follows in it is the ordinary catastrophe of a home front: food only on ration cards, requisitions, prices out of reach, and eight successive war loans that villagers were pressed to subscribe to and that were worth almost nothing by the end. In 1918 the Spanish flu arrived on top of all of it. Men kept coming back from Russian captivity for years afterwards, some with frozen or amputated limbs, and some of those who reached home died of what they had brought back from the field.Mobilizácia dorazila do Častej 1. augusta 1914 — vyhlášky priviezol autom úradník zo Senca a kronika si zapamätala plač pri odchode mužov. Ďalej v nej nasleduje obyčajná katastrofa zázemia: potraviny len na lístky, rekvizície, ceny mimo dosahu a osem po sebe idúcich vojnových pôžičiek, na ktoré ľudí tlačili a ktoré na konci vojny nestáli takmer nič. Roku 1918 prišla ku všetkému ešte španielska chrípka. Muži sa vracali z ruského zajatia ešte roky po vojne, niektorí s omrznutými alebo amputovanými končatinami, a časť z tých, čo sa domov dostali, zomrela na to, čo si z frontu priniesla.
